Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Tilly needs a little trim. But I agree. It's who they are. I can't see cutting it all away like some people do.

But it make the boys look so macho to sport a punkrock Rambo look!

 

[RoyalChick]

Awwww poor Piglet, cockerels are such doorknobs.

Maybe show her an escape route when silly boy comes around. If silly boys come calling with the young pullets I pick them up and put them on a stall door or something. They seem to figure this out fast once shown.

Good idea. I will try. I hope I don’t traumatize her more as she is not one to accept being picked up.
For now I have given her breakfast in the nest box and distracted everyone else with a scattered dinner roll.

 

[Ponypoor]

Mugs Monday

Ruth - she’s just finishing up her moult.

 

[Ponypoor]

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[rural mouse]

Happy Mugshot Monday
Did someone say hormonal idiot?!
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I’ll be honest it is a bit stressful here at the moment. Mr. Chips has taken a shine to Piglet. This is definitively not consensual. And no, he does not put his weight on the ground.
To make matters worse, while Piglet was still frozen on the spot - clearly thinking she had been attacked led by a hawk - mean girl, Calypso laid into her.
I don't see how Mr. Chips will learn to be a gentleman if nobody tries to correct him. Piglet is way too meek and scared to peck. Tassels doesn’t seem to care one way or the other (this morning she just kept on eating while he tried to get his balance).
Poor Piglet is traumatized and spent most of her day hiding in a nest box. She doesn’t seem to have mastered that she can escape upwards or onto one of the wobbly logs.

Give it time...

Edit: more thought

Set up a food/water station up on something like a large tree stump/ smallish table. Possibly fasten a 2 foot x 2 foot piece of plywood (or similar) to a stump or spanning the lower parts of the ladder. Should encourage upward motion and help them figure out escape.

@ChicoryBlue idea for you also

 

[RoyalChick]

Give it time...

Edit: more thought

Set up a food/water station up on something like a large tree stump/ smallish table. Possibly fasten a 2 foot x 2 foot piece of plywood (or similar) to a stump or spanning the lower parts of the ladder. Should encourage upward motion and help them figure out escape.

@ChicoryBlue idea for you also

They have the orange table outside that Piglet uses often for water so I could bring that into the run area.